I visited my dorm room in Martin Hall a few days ago. It seems early to go and visit it, but my brother reserved the room so why not. It is a bit smaller than I thought it would be, but it looks like I'll have enough space to move in. It was pretty simple, it had two beds, a dresser and desk combo, and a closet. The desk has an LED light built over top of it so it looks great. Whenever I stepped into the room, I felt kind of sad. it was sad to think that I would be leaving home and living on my own with my brother, but it is one of the first steps of becoming independent. I choose to accept my sadness and take it as a sign that I am growing up and becoming independent.
I guess its the end of an era, the end of high school. I remember my first day coming to high school whenever I had to run up the hill outside of my school when my step dad ran out of gas on our way there. It seems so long ago that that happened. Moving on to college is something that I am excited for, but at the same time, its sad. The idea of leaving a way of living behind, and moving on to become independent is daunting to me. As far as things I regret not doing in high school, my biggest regret is not being more social. I have always been shy and awkward when it comes to people, and never made an effort to hang out with people outside of school. Its good that I know this now and that I can go to college with a more social ideology, but not having it in high school has left me only a select few people to miss. I am grateful for those who have stood by me through all of my trials in high school, but I feel that I never made a good enough effort to make very close friends. I think the biggest thing I feel sad about when moving on to college is leaving behind those people who have supported me. Everyone from my family to the friends that I have. They have all taught me so well and have taught me to not be so hard on myself when I don't do perfect at something. It is with the idea that I learned something from these people that I hold my head up and realize that although I am leaving the people, the lessons they have shown me will never go away. It is with these lessons in mind I grow excited for college. A new start, chapter, step, whatever you want to call it, it is something that, although I am sad leaving behind my last step, I can use it to reach the new one.
In terms of other things that I need to buy, I will need to buy bed sheets that are college size if the whole futon idea doesn't really work out. I will also need to buy quick breakfast items like pop tarts or some sort of breakfast cake. I don't really plan to buy to many things because I haven't taken into consideration how I am going to decorate the room. Me and my brother had the idea of putting lights up in our dorm room, but other than that, I have not really given decorating much thought. Other than other things like school binders, pencils, paper, and a lamp, I don't really know what else I need to get. I think I might just leave the decorating to my brother since he has lived in the hall I am moving into with him. He has a way to decorate, and I will give input on what we need to add or take down.
In terms of my purchases for my dorm room, me and my roommate, my brother have gotten together and figured out what I need to help him get for the dorm room. Me and him are going to end up buying a futon for our dorm room. Instead of having two beds, we are going to see if we can get one bed for the room that he sleeps in, while I sleep on the futon. This will allow there to be more space in the dorm room, and I will be able to sleep more comfortably. I just sleep better on chair like structures for some reason.
I have made a lot of calls to UK in order to understand how to transfer all of my credits to UK from EKU and get straight into the Civil Engineering program. I can handle all of my general education requirements for UK at EKU while still getting a pre-engineering and physics degree after three years of work at EKU. I can handle all of the pre program requirements for UK's civil engineering program except for the engineering classes at UK that introduce civil engineering. These will have to be taken when I transfer to UK my first semester. Therefore, to get my bachelor's degree in civil engineering, I will need to sped three years at EKU and Two and a half at UK. This plan is why I decided to not research Lindsey Wilson, and instead research UK. In the end, I have figured out all of the information I will need for my five and a half year plan to work. I will need to get a job after EKU, possibly a teaching job, in order to earn money to actually go to UK. In the end, everything academically for the future has been planned out.
A lot has happened this week. I have gotten my housing figured out and now have a room reserved. My brother reserved a dorm room in Martin on EKU's campus. I have not seen the room, but I am satisfied with the dorm's price. It may not be the dorm that I wanted, but it is still the same price as Sullivan. I also have not seen the dorm, but I plan to go and visit the dorm maybe next week. As well as taking care of housing, I have emailed the chairs of the department that I am interested in at both EKU and Lindsey Wilson. I have gotten curriculum lists for the programs and have gotten an idea on what I need to do to get into the program at each college. There appears to be no separate application process in either case for the programs at EKU or Lindsey Wilson. Once I am in the college, I can be in their program. If I decide to go to Lindsey Wilson from EKU, all of my credits should transfer, but some of them may be taken as extra curricular classes. Also, I have talked to UK about transferring from EKU in their three two program, and depending on the type of engineering I take at UK, I will go to UK for two or three years. In the end I have classes figured out in both cases all that I need to know. As far as going to EKU next semester, I have everything accept my meal plan, my work study, and my classes planned. EKU is where I am going next semester and I will be able to do well in the college. In the end, I still need to buy things for the dorm, but I will blog throughout the weekend what I do, feel about college, and what I will purchase for living on campus.
This week has been mainly a planning week. I plan to make sure my dorm is reserved by my brother tomorrow for housing at EKU. I have not mentioned this before, but the dorm that I want to have is Sullivan Hall. The reason I wanted this hall reserved is because it was the cheapest one on campus. The way I got it reserved is because my brother is a Junior and I am going to have him as my roommate next year. If he has reserved it, I will be able to apply for my dorm this Sunday along with having my brother as my roommate. I also have my orientation scheduled for May 29 so I will be able to talk to my counselor then. I have figured out that the job of a counselor is to tell me what classes I need to take next year for my major. In the end, I have done all I can for this week. Next week I am going to do research on the professors in my major and also all of the classes I need to take for my pre-engineering and physics major.
Over the week I have been doing a lot of thinking over anything else. I have been thinking about what all I need to do left for college and do what I need to do. I need to still apply for my housing and get all of my meal plan and classes straightened out. However, I feel like the classes will be taken care of whenever I go through orientation at EKU. I will be able to be face to face with my counselor and get things sorted. Housing is something I will do whenever I can sit down with my roommate next year, my brother, and we can both apply at the same time. Also, he's a junior at EKU so he knows better than I do about the housing application. Finally, my meal plan I don't think I can even apply for my meal plan yet. As soon as I can, I will take care of that as well. My meal plan will probably be the cheapest one that EKU offers. In terms of things that are done, scholarship applications are done, I know my major is Physics and Pre-Engineering, and I know the campus really well. In the end, aside from things having to do with campus life, and my classes, I am ready to go to EKU. It will be weird to live on a campus, but I will be able to see what it is like to be on my own. Especially since I have a work study so I will have a job for the first time. My scholarships and my work study will take care of most of my costs for EKU, so financially, I think I'll be okay. In the end, I may be a little nervous, but I know what I need to do to be a good student, and more importantly, lead an individual life.
This week I have not done all that much. I have decided to not do my cruising in the valley scholarship since I didn't have time to fill out the essay part of the scholarship. I have done all of my scholarship things that I was going to apply for. I have been rejected for the Jackson Energy Scholarship. In the end, I plan to do my housing application this next week. In the end, I haven't done to much this week but than again, there is not much to do left.
This week I have turned in the scholarship application for the EKU Foundation Scholarships. I have pretty much filled out the entire resume part of the scholarship and kept it for job applications as well as EKU applications for certain programs. The resume had me fill out things like career goals and academic accomplishments. I am trying to figure out my housing application for EKU since they do housing according to the different programs in dorms rather than the dorms themselves. I am trying to figure out how to get the cheapest dorm on the campus. As well as figuring out applications, I have also figured out that I have a work study at EKU and I have accepted my scholarships given to me through EKU. I also have to fill out my last scholarship application which is the "Cruising in the Valley Scholarship". In the middle of everything, I have also visited EKU's campus and Lindsey Wilson's campus and taken pictures. This is the thing I was most afraid of not getting on time for the website. In the end, I feel that I can't do much more until next week since I am going to try and get in touch with my counselor over at EKU. I hope I'll be able to do everything by the end of the year, and I hopefully get all of my essays done.
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